The Agency of Things in Medieval and Early Modern Art : Materials, Power and Manipulation / edited by Graczyna Jurkowlaniec, Ika Matyjaszkiewicz and Zuzanna Sarnecka.

part Introduction -- chapter Art History Empowering Medieval and Early Modern Things / GRAZYNA JURKOWLANIEC -- part PART 1 Material Agency -- chapter 1 The Power of Nature and the Agency of Art: The Unicorn Cup of Jan Vermeyen / ANDREW MORRALL -- chapter 2 Late Medieval Enclosed Gardens of the Low Countries: Mixed Media, Remnant Art, Recyclage and Gender in the Low Countries (Sixteenth Century Onwards) / BARBARA BAERT -- part PART 2 The Power of Things -- chapter 3 Knighted by the Apostle Himself: Political Fabrication and Chivalric Artefact in Compostela,1332 / ROSA M. RODRIGUEZ PORTO -- chapter 4 Agency and Miraculous Images / ROBERT MANIURA -- chapter 5 Agency, Beauty and the Late Medieval Sculptural Encounter / PETER DENT -- part PART 3 Objects as Social Agents -- chapter 6 Dispersal, Exchange and the Culture of Things in Fifteenth-century Italy / LEAH R. CLARK -- chapter 7 Michelangelo, Tommaso de' Cavalieri and the Agency of the Gift-Drawing / ALEXANder LEE -- chapter 8 Distributing Durer in the Netherlands: Gifts, Prints, and the Mediation of Fame in the Early Sixteenth Century / JAYA REMOND -- part PART 4 Agency of Physical Manipulations -- chapter 9 The Early Modern Bible between Material Book and Immaterial Word / WIM FRANCOIS -- chapter 10 Diagnostic Performance and Diagrammatic Manipulation in the Physician's Folding Almanacs / KAREN EILEEN OVERBEY -- chapter 11 Surgical Saws and Cutting-Edge Agency / JACK HARTNELL -- part PART 5 The Agency of Things and Human Agency -- chapter 12 The Boots of Saint Hedwig: Thoughts on the Limits of the Agency of Things / JACQUELINE E. JUNG.

"This volume explores the late medieval and early modern periods from the perspective of objects. While the agency of things has been studied in anthropology and archaeology, it is an innovative approach for art historical investigations. Each contributor takes as a point of departure active things: objects that were collected, exchanged, held in hand, carried on a body, assembled, cared for or pawned. Through a series of case studies set in various geographic locations, this volume examines a rich variety of systems throughout Europe and beyond."--Provided by publisher.